Installing and Launching XSCT on Windows

XSCT can be installed using the Windows executable installer. The installer executable bears the name Xilinx_SDK_<version>_Win64.EXE, where <version> indicates the Xilinx Software Development Kit (Xilinx SDK) version number.

Note: Installing XSCT on Microsoft Windows operating system might require administrator rights. In addition, your project workspace needs to be set up in any folder that you can fully access.
  1. To install XSCT, double-click the Windows installer executable file.
  2. The installer accepts your login credentials and allows you to select specific tool components. The client then automatically downloads only what you have selected and installs it on your local machine.
  3. In the Select Edition to Install window, select the Xilinx Software Command-Line Tool (XSCT) option to install XSCT as a seperate command-line tool only. Alternatively, you can also select the Xilinx Software Development Kit (XSDK) option to install XSCT as a part of the Xilinx SDK, an Eclipse-based integrated development environment.
  4. Unless you choose otherwise, XSCT is installed in the C:\Xilinx directory.
  5. To launch XSCT on Windows, select Start > Programs > Xilinx Design Tools > SDK <version> and then select Xilinx Software Command Line Tool. Where SDK <version> indicates the Xilinx Software Development Kit version number.
  6. You can also launch XSCT from the command line. 
    cd C:\Xilinx\SDK\<version>\bin
xsct.bat
  7. To view the available command-line options, issue the help command at the XSCT command prompt. 
    ****** Xilinx Software Commandline Tool (XSCT) 
  
    ** Copyright 1986-2016 Xilinx, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

xsct% help
Available Help Categories

connections   - Target Connection Management
registers     - Target Registers
running       - Program Execution
memory        - Target Memory
download      - Target Download FPGA/BINARY
reset         - Target Reset
breakpoints   - Target Breakpoints/Watchpoints
streams       - Jtag UART
miscellaneous - Miscellaneous
jtag          - JTAG Access
sdk           - SDK Projects
petalinux     - Petalinux commands
hsi           - HSI commands

Type "help" followed by above "category" for more details or
help" followed by the keyword "commands" to list all the commands

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